Could you explain what a symlink is and how one goes about doing that? Thanks, Matt On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 09:11, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > /dev/dvd needs to be a symlink to the real dvd device. More help > available upon request. > > Matt Pittard wrote: > > I installed mplayer and I'm able to watch a DivX video, however, I get > > an "Could not open DVD device: /dev/dvd" error when I try and play a > > DVD. Is there something I have done wrong? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Matt > > > > On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 08:18, Michael L Torrie wrote: > > > >>On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 22:59, Matt Pittard wrote: > >> > >>>Hello everyone. Name is Matt Pittard. I'm a new user to the land of > >>>Linux thanks to the Mike Halcrow zealous pitch. I'm really liking it > >>>thus far, but I'm really all about the multi-media. I have an ATI > >>>All-in-wonder TV-in and video out. I heard from Mike that a program > >>>called "mplayer" > >>>(http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design5/news.html#0.90rc4) is the > >>>program I need to set this up and I'm a little confused as to the exact > >>>order of operations of installation. I have installed the apt-get > >>>program, but I don't know if this is the way to do this. The > >>>instructions go into a lot of detail about things I need, but I'm not > >>>sure if I need to install all the codex programs or what. If anyone > >>>could give me a step by step set of instructions, I'd appreciate it. I'm > >>>running Red Hat 8.0. > >> > >>Although you could install it from source, you'll do just fine by using > >>apt: > >> > >>apt-get update > >>apt-get install mplayer > >> > >>If you want, you can download all the codecs from mplayer's site and > >>untar them and then put them all in /usr/lib/win32. > >> > >>Michael > >> > >> > >> > >>>Thanks, > >>> > >>>Matt > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>______________________________________ > >>>Inflex Virus Scanner - installed on mailserver for domain @et.byu.edu > >>>Queries to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>>____________________ > >>>BYU Unix Users Group > >>>http://uug.byu.edu/ > >>>___________________________________________________________________ > >>>List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > >> > >>-- > >>Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >>____________________ > >>BYU Unix Users Group > >>http://uug.byu.edu/ > >>___________________________________________________________________ > >>List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > >> > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________ > > Inflex Virus Scanner - installed on mailserver for domain @et.byu.edu > > Queries to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list >
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